The Roger Kahn reader
Subtitle: six decades of sportswriting
By: Roger Kahn ; edited and with an introduction by Bill Dwyre
Contributors: Dwyre, Bill, editor, writer of introduction
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780803294721
Subjects: Sports
Description: "A rich collection of fifty-one stories and articles by Roger Kahn. Written across six decades, this volume shows Kahn's ability to describe the athletes he profiled as they truly were in a manner neither compromised nor cruel but always authentic and up close"--
Table of contents: title: An American tragedy; title: A death without sunlight: Jackie Robinson Jr. / Esquire, November 1971 part 2; title: When Eisenhower reigned; title: Joe Black's odyssey / New York Herald Tribune, June 8, 1952; title: What white big leaguers really think of Negro players / Our sports, June 1953; title: The twilight of the gods / Sports Illustrated, September 20, 1954; title: Baseball 1954 / Sports Illustrated, October 4, 1954; title: Here's tap day / Sports Illustrated, November 22, 1954; title: Forget something, boys? / Sports Illustrated, December 20, 1954; title: New York proudly presents / Sports Illustrated, September 27, 1954; title: 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . & bingo / Sports Illustrated, October 11, 1954; title: Glory day in Columbus / Sports Illustrated, November 29, 1954; title: Alonzo, Alonzo / Sports Illustrated, January 10, 1955; title: Big Newk and his psyche / Sport, August 1955; title: Early Wynn: the story of a hard loser / Sport, March 1956; title: The Boswells of baseball / The Nation, September 7, 1957; title: Stan Musial is baseball's no. 1 citizen / Sport, February 1958; title: Little Nellie's a man now / Sport, April 1958; title: Rookie of the year [fiction] / Cosmopolitan, June 1958; title: How the other half lives / Sport, October 1958; title: The crucial part fear plays in sport / Sport, August 1959; title: Changing times; title: The benching of a legend / Sports Illustrated, September 12, 1960; title: Success and Ned Irish /Sports Illustrated, March 27, 1961; title: Baseball's secret weapon: terror / Sports Illustrated, July 10, 1961; title: Pursuit of no. 60: the ordeal of Roger Maris / Sports Illustrated, October 2, 1961; title: Robert Frost: a reminiscence / The Nation, February 9, 1963; title: The time of the hustler / Show Magazine, October 1963; title: Getting closer; title: Writing sports / Esquire, August 1970; title: The life and hard times of Jim Bouton / Esquire, December 1970; title: The Mick / Esquire, May 1971; title: Roy Emerson / Esquire, June 1971; title: Bob Gibson / Esquire, July 1971; title: Scuba diving /Esquire, January 1974; title: A shrine in Brooklyn / Sports Illustrated, August 5, 1974; title: Cheer, cheer for old Ezra Pound / Esquire, November 1974; title: The good and bad times of Don King / Esquire, November 1975; title: George Foreman is down but not out / Esquire, May 1976; title: Aspects of the game / Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1976; title: A baseball sketchbook / Sports Illustrated, August 23, 1976; title: Golden triumphs, tarnished dreams / Sports Illustrated, August 30, 1976; title: Walter O'Malley in the sunshine / New York Times, January 9, 1978; title: Some modest proposals / New York Times, February 13, 1978; title: The joy of Bill Veeck / New York Times, April 3, 1978; title: Public relations / New York Times, July 31, 1978; title: Jim Lonborg at thirty-seven / New York Times, April 2, 1979; title: A visit with Red Smith / Notre Dame Magazine, December 1979; title: My movie option: eight years of strikeouts / New York Times, May 4, 1980; title: Lafleur (the flower of Canada) / Sport, December 1981; title: Dodger verities span the seasons / New York Times, October 6, 1985; title: A new millennium; title: Joe Black, 1924-2002: hard thrower, soft heart / Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2002; title: Scorecard: mind over batter / Sports Illustrated, December 8, 2003; title: A few moments with TSW / Boston Red Sox Magazine, June 2007; title: Clem / an original story.